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#OWS, Times Square, and the Global Labor Movement By Mark Nowak
Trade unionists I’ve spoken with around the world have related, over and again, how participating in the occupy movements have transformed their opinions. Continue reading
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1st Amendment Victory in Goodman v. St. Paul, MN Police
Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) celebrated a landmark settlement in Goodman v. St. Paul, a federal lawsuit brought by Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Nicole Salazar against the Minneapolis-St. Paul police departments and the U.S. Secret Service, arising from law enforcement’s unlawful arrest and use of excessive of force… Continue reading
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“Syria is fine”… or is it? — RT
The UN says more than 2,200 people have been killed in Syria in the six-month-long crackdown on anti-government protesters. And despite growing calls by the Western leaders for Bashar Assad to step down, he says his regime is not in danger. Continue reading
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Proof that Demonstrations in Syria are Not Peaceful By grtv
Evidence that demonstrations in Syria, which mainstream media describes as “peaceful”, are anything but that. Footage shot around Talkalakh, Syria. Continue reading
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Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2009
Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? From the end of the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1930s to anti-government demonstrations in Greece in 2010-11, austerity has tended to go hand in hand with politically motivated violence and social instability. In this paper, we assemble cross-country evidence for the period 1919 to the present,… Continue reading
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Why teachers should strike (even if they don’t want to) By Ed
On June 30, although most of the teachers and lecturers in the NUT, ATL and UCU will be going on strike, not all of them will be. The following post, by Jacob Mukherjee*, presents a case for why those teachers should make the sacrifice and join the strike on June 30. Continue reading
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Spain takes to the Streets!
21 May 2011 Un grito silencioso. Performance de Callao a Sol. 20 de mayo de 2011 / A quiet shout. Performance of Sun Pebble. 20 May 2011. A mass protest in Spain involving hundreds of thousands of people against the austerity cuts and massive (45%) youth unemployment and all on the eve of local elections, Continue reading
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The Secret History of Violence By Dan Hind
On Monday Verso ran a piece about the ambiguities of violent protest. You can read it here. The piece was prompted by this BBC footage, which seems to show someone leaving a crowd of protesters, showing his ID to the police and moving through their lines. The key section begins at around 5 mins 50… Continue reading
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An Interview with Noha Atef – Egyptian Journalist, Blogger and Dissident – on the Historic Events Underway in Her Country
When events in Egypt shook the world this week, Noha found herself in Europe, where she is studying. Airlines have stopped flights to her country, the Egyptian government shut down its citizens’ access to the Internet, cell phones and other communications systems, and she has had to watch the history unfold like the rest of… Continue reading
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Imaginationland
Imagine it was North Korea, says China. Imagine it was Iran or Zimbabwe or Burma. Among scenes of ‘violence’, with police lashing out at protesters landing one in hospital with a serious brain injury, there is some shocking footage: Continue reading
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Our youth are leading the way By Jeremy Corbyn
From the comfort of the Commons, Business Secretary Vince Cable – having turned from economic saint to monetarist ogre in seven months – calmly told the house that state support for higher education teaching would reduce from 60 per cent to 40 and that the rest would be ‘made up by the private sector.’ Continue reading
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On Adeeb Abu Rahmah’s release By Rebecca Vilkomerson
After serving an eighteen month jail serving for organizing unarmed demonstrations in Bil’in, Adeeb Abu Rahmah is a free man. Before he had even reached the gate of Ofer military compound, Adeeb Abu Rahmah had his hands in the air in celebration. Continue reading
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Iran's Quiet Revolution: Mohammad Javad Jahangir's The Invisible Crowd By Mohammad Salemy
Events of the past few weeks surrounding the Iranian presidential race and its aftermath not only were the most recent example of the social force called the Iranian political crowd, they were also a new chance for us to reexamine Abrahamian’s thesis regarding the political crowd in the age of global spectacle. In doing so,… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report #49 by William Blum, October 1, 2007
Anti-Empire Report, October 1, 2007: The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life October 1, 2007 William Blum www.killinghope.org If not now, when? If not here, where? If not you, who? I used to give thought to what historical time and place I would like to Continue reading
The New Dark Age 